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alternate ovate-oblong, large, glandular-crenate, petiolate ; stipules 

 falcate, rather large, deciduous ; flowers in axillary, slender, elongated, 

 interrupted spikes (Trqp. Western Africa}). 



28. Asteropeia Dup.-Trv — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 very short, cupulate. Sepals 5, obtuse, imbricate, persistent, and 

 petals 5, alternate, deciduous, perigynously inserted on margin of 

 receptacle. Stamens 10-15, inserted with perianth; filaments at 

 base in 1-adelphous ring, otherwise free ; anthers short, 2-locular, 

 rimose. Germen free, sessile, incompletely 3-locular, apex obtuse or 

 attenuated in style stigmatiferous subentire or 3-fid at apex ; ovules 

 in each cell 2, inserted below apex, descending. Capsule attended by 

 base of calyx and androceum, loculicidal, sometimes inwardly fun- 

 gous ; seeds oo, hippocrepiform ; embryo .... ? — Humble trees or 

 scandent shrubs ; leaves alternate, etiolate, exstipulate ; oblong or 

 obovate, entire, coriaceous ; flowers 3 in terminal and axillary rami- 

 fied racemes ; bracts and bractlets caducous (Madagascar*). 



VI. HOMALIEyR 



29. Homalium Jacq. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle con- 

 cave, turbinate or obconical. Sepals 5—7, and petals same in number, 

 alternate, linear oblong, inserted in throat of receptacle, imbricated, 

 persistent. Stamens inserted with petals 2- go and opposite, either 

 equal in number (BlackweUia) or before each in fascicles with peri- 

 gynous alternate glandules {Racoubea) ; filaments free ; anthers 2- 

 locular, extrorse, sub-2-dymous, 2-rimose. Germen partly adnate to 

 interior of receptacle, 1-locular; style lobes 2-6, slender, apex 

 simple or capitellate stigmatiferous ; placentas parietal same in 

 number, alternate ; ovules on each placenta oc, or few, sometimes I 

 (Nisa), descending ; micropyle introrse, superior. Capsule semi- 

 superior, coriaceous, apex 2-0-valved ; seeds usually few, angulate or 

 oblong ; testa crustaceous ; embryo albuminous ; cotyledons foliaceous. 

 — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate simple, usually glan- 



1 Spec. 1. D. crenata Benth., loc. cit. — Gen., n. 5092. — TvL.,'m Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, 

 Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 496. — viii. 79 (Asteropea).— B. H., Gen., 801, n. 17. 

 Walp., Ann., ii. 278. 3 Small, whitish ; or in other species pale 



2 Gen. Nov. Madag., 22, 73 ; Hist. Veg. lies yellow. 



Afr., 51, t. 15. — DC, Frodr., ii. 55.— Endl., 4 Spec. 2. Tul., loc. cit., 80-82. 



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